News and Scholarship

In the wake of the financial crisis observers worried that European democracies were coming under threat from populist parties and right-wing movements. Others hold that populist parties merely close a representation gap, thereby contributing to the overall health of democratic polities in Europe. However, CUNY Graduate Center scholar Till Weber [...]

“Women, racial and ethnic minorities, and other groups do not advance to faculty positions in numbers proportionate to their presence in the population,” say Virginia Valian, a distinguished professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and director of Hunter College’s Gender Equity Project, and Abigail Stewart, professor at the University of Michigan, in their recent book.

Are all men created equal? What is the value of egalitarianism today? Why do modern democracies have trouble dealing with race and immigration? – These were questions addressed in a recent conference organized by Helena Rosenblatt, Professor of history at The Graduate Center, CUNY and James Miller, Professor of liberal studies and politics and faculty director of the Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program at the New School.

Should non-citizen U.S. residents be allowed to vote? Peter Markowitz, director of the Immigrant Justice Center at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University here in New York, argues in the Stanford Law Review that each U.S. state has full authority under the US Constitution to [...]